Device for use in emptying benzine and like tins



' Mare 20, 1923. I 1,448,732

A. 4. DENIZE DEVICE FOR USE 1N EMPTYING BENZINE AND LIKE TINS Filed Jan.- 4, 1922 flliad ama 1 @6421}? Patented Mar. 20, 1923.

ANGUS JAMES nnnrzn, or CABBAGE BAY,COROMA1\TDEL,.1\TEW znALAn'nf DEVICE FOR USE IN EMPTYING BENZINE AND LIKE TINS.

Application filed January l, 1922. Serial No. 526,976.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ANGUS J AMES Dnmzn,

subject of the King ofGreat Britain, residing at Cabbage Bay, Coromandel, in the Dominion of New Zealand, have invented a new and useful Device for Use in Emptying Benzine and like Tins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvediconstruction of device for use upon benzine and like tins to provide for the contents being withdrawn or poured therefrom as and when required.

The device is designed by its construction to pierce the tin with two or more holes and then to seal a cap like chamber 'over such holes so that the liquid may run into and fill the chamber and then out through a spout with which it is provided. Such spout may be tap controlled to provide for the liquid being decanted as required, or it may be left free to permit of the whole of the contents being withdrawn atthe one opera tion. Inthis latter form the device is particularly useful in filling the fuel tanks of motor vehicles and the like, as providing a spout attachment to the tin through which it may be emptied direct into the fuel tank.

The invention consists specially in the means combined with such cap like chamber by which the tin may be pierced and the cap then clamped in a liquid tight manner over the holes thus pierced.

In fully describin the invention reference will be made to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device.

Figure 2 is a back elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a sectionalside elevation of the device showing it clamped to a sheet representing the side of a tin.

Figure & is a face view of the said tin side showing the holes pierced therein and the piercing and clamping means, in section, on the line 4-4 of Figure 3.

A is a metal cap chamber of approved size and shape, preferably of the circular form shewn, and made with an open inner end, and with a spout B openin outwards from its side wall. The inner e ge of the cap is provided with a ring of rubber, or the like, C, let into it all round and provided for the purpose of makin a llqllid tight ]011lt with the surface upon w ich the cap is clamped in the manner to be hereinafter explained.

I To the inside surface. o f the closed end of the cap two piercersD are fixed iniany appropriate manner and arranged to project rearwards through the open end of the said cap; These'are arranged on respectively opposite sides of the central line of the chamber andat equal distances therefrom. Each is formed of a blade E of approved metal the one edge of which is made straight while.

the other edge is made to taper outwards and rearwards froma fine-point E at the forward extremity, and then is brought inwards towards the other so as to form a shoulder F. Such shoulder is arranged to extend in a line level with the plane of the inner edge ofthe cap, and its outer portion is made to taper outwards as shewn at F. These two piercers are arranged so that the shoulders F of the two, and also, of course, the tapered edges, are upon respectively opposite sides of a diametrical line extending across them,

or in other words, sothat they extend in the same circumferential line. They are also preferably given a slight transverse curve,

as shewn in Figures 2 and i so that they cut slots H (Figures 3 and 4) therein of length equal to the full width of the piercers. VVhen'the cap edge engages the surface of the tin, it is given a partial rotation on its own axis which causes the inclined portions F of the shoulders to engage the inside surface of the tin at the ends of the respective slots and thereby to draw the rubber ring C hard in against the'outside surface, and then cause the square shoulders F to pass in behind the slot ends and clamp the cap firmly in its position. This leaves the major portions of the slots H open and unimpeded so that the liquid in the tin may flow freely into the cap, when the tin is turned down, and then out through the spout B. i

A strainer J of fine gauze or like material, may be fixed on the inside of the cap A so as to cover the opening into the spout C and thus strain the liquid passing through.

I claim 1. A device for the purpose herein described consisting in a cap shaped chamber having an open inner end and a spout opening from its wall, andpiercers fixed thereto and extending out in parallel lines through theopen end of the chamber, each of such piercers being formed with its projecting portion of triangular shape having its apex forward and with a shoulder at its rear end in a line level with the plane of the cap chamber inner edge, substantially as specified.

2. In a device for the purposes described and as covered by claim 1, the combination with the said cap shaped chamber of a resilient ring secured around the open inner edge of the chamber, substantially as specified.

3. In a device for the purposes described,

the combination with a cap shaped chamber having a spout opening from its side, an open inner end and a rubber ring secured around the rim of such opening, of a number of piercers arranged to extend rigidly from they inside of the chamber outwards beyond its inner end at difierent positions around the central line thereof, and each formed of a metal blade having its projecting portion made of triangular shape with its apex at its inner end and with a shoulder at its outer end inclining inwards to a line with the level of the chamber rim, substantially as specified. I

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ANGUS JAMES DENIZE.

Witnesses: v

DAVID BROWN HUTTON, WILLIAM HENRY MoCoMBIA. 

